Mark Des Marets is co-founder of NWRAGE Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering. Mark has worked for the last twenty five years as an organizer with grassroots environmental organizations in Oregon and Washington. Mark was a speaker on the Campaign to
STOP GE Trees "Growing Threat" tour of the Pacific Northwest in October 2015.
"Hey, I'm Mark Des Merets with Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (NWRAGE). I'm at the OSU (Oregon State University) campus here and I'm also on this roadshow called "The Growing Threat." We are traveling up the west coast talking about genetically engineered trees. The reason we're at this campus is because Steve Strauss' laboratory is engineering poplar. Genetically engineered trees are unsustainable, unwanted, unnecessary, and inherently unsafe. They will devastate native forests in the Pacific Northwest if they get planted and other areas of the world as well. It is a solution in search of a problem."
Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees threaten the biodiversity of native forests, are false solutions to the climate change crisis and can have unpredictable and irreversible consequences. The Pacific Northwest is key as it hosts some of the leading global research on GE Trees.
